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Bill,

I did a careful reading of the online help, and it states, "The position is relative to the edges of the column that contains the changed text, regardless of the number of columns on the page." And then I played around with it.

Apparently, closer and farther refer to the side of the TEXT column (or frame if there is only one column) that is closer to or farther from AN edge of the paper, not necessarily the binding edge.

So, you are correct in that it has something to do with the master pages. Make sure that all master pages are consistent in their left and right margins. If the margin toward the binding side is the larger, then right pages should have the larger margin on the left and left pages should have the larger margin on the right. For THIS case, closer to the page edge refers to the NONbinding edge; farther from the page edge refers to the binding edge, because the text column is farther from the page edge on that side.

If the page margins are equal, then I do not know which is closer and which is farther. You will have to experiment.

So, for a FIXED choice of closer to or farther from the page edge, you can switch the position of the change bars by simply moving the text frame right or left.

Hope this helps,
Van